There is now apparently a possibility that IE will at long last support SVG.

Fantastic (even if very belated). Microsoft have also hinted that they will adopt CSS 3.

Outstanding!

Now there is just DOM level 2, correct and reasonably performing ECMA script and SMIL left to go. It wouldn't hurt if they included royalty-free open codecs (Vorbis and Theora) and HTML5 directly in IE as well. They might then even catch up to the rest of today's browsers within this very decade!

Now, to go on topic. It's nice to see Microsoft working on it in some way, but I'd really like to see their implementation on IE before they start having influence in the directions of the thing itself.

It's almost like a foreign politician trying to join the current government or something. All in the realm of bad analogies, of course.